The drink age should be lowered to 18

We are out of step from the rest of the world. Almost every western nation has it at 18. They realize that you can't call soemone too imature to make an adult decision and then call them an adult at the same time. 18 can join the military, can get married, OWN A GUN and own proptery but can't drink! A lot of people like to point out that it prevents car accsidents. I would like to point out the number of alohal related car accsidents have been going up since 1998 and the number of alcohal deaths related to alohcal abuse amoung teens has also gone up becuase they drink in private. Really all they did is take drinking out of the public squear for young people. They still drink Deaths still happen ehtier way. The way we have it now we are discrediting the law and adulthood in the eyes of young adults that break the drinking age law.

At least with lowering the drinking age to 18 we can start an agressive education compagian to encourage SAFE drinking at hightschools and colleges. Stastsiclly speaking in other european countries they have done this with sex and the amount of teen pregnancy went down. They probably still hvaing sex but its safe sex. That is the point. We gotten to the point of a society that we can be a little bad and deal with it.

Really i don't think the government should tell anyone want to put in there body. Its to them to make that choice and they are liable if that choice back fires.

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Right Ryan, I am no one to tell you what to do. But remember this, the difference between been a grown up and child, is your ability to listen and learn. Sorry you don;t get it, learn from others so you don't have to repeat their mistakes.

No, that is not it. Look I agree that the drink age is irrelevant. I started drinking at the legal age of 19, drank till I was 23. I started realizing I was falling down a long tunnel and I quit. I stopped drinking till just relatively recently after my divorce. I did drink on occasion some wine and beer or so. But that wasn't really drinking. Now I go out and have a pitcher or two, get a buzz, go dancing and then don't drink for a week or so. May be that is stage I am going through. The point is this, I know it is deadly, I don't underestimate it. And whether you are too young to realize you are just as foolish as me or not, then do you really want to make it easier for every teenager in this country to drink?

I repeat... Do you really want to make it easier for every teenager in this country to drink?

Why not? It's not like they wont find a way. I have been drinking for as long as I can remember. I have never had a drinking problem in my life. It is better for kids to see drinking as just a part of life.

Who me... Never
He will either be a total alcoholic, killed all his brain cells and won't remember this conversation, or he will be smart enough to admit he was wrong when he looks at his pregnant wife behind the wheel of a car. And realize that he is going to be a Dad but one day his family could be killed by a drunken teenager.

Ryan, seriously I had some fun with you. good luck - You are the master of your universe, just don't forget others walked your same shoes, learn from them, you will be wiser, richer and live longer .

My probem here is the drinking age. How you are forcing us to sneak the booze. I am not oppose to yoru advice but I am oppose to your posttiion that the government should tell not to drink and make it hard for me to get one.